THE news that the principal of De La Salle College is to return after a two-year absence has been met by criticism by a number of parents opposed to the decision. Claire White has been on leave from the West Belfast secondary school since 2016. A letter published on the school website from the chair […]
Pic of the day, Thursday, April 26
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Plans for Castle Street and surrounding area go on show
WEST Belfast Partnership Board have hosted a community consultation in light of a draft masterplan launched by Belfast City Council for the future development of what it terms as the Inner North West area of Belfast. City Council earmarks this area as stretching from Castle Street and College Street in the west over to North […]
Young Saffrons look to Erne their stripes
IT is the Ulster Minor Football Championship, but not as we know it. Gone are the days when they crowds on the terraces would swell during the second half as the province’s best minor footballers went toe-to-toe. The minors no longer act as the curtain-raisers for the main senior events. That honour is now reserved […]
Pic of the day, April 25
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School funding is being ‘gerrymandered’
A LOCAL councillor has claimed that the Department of Education is “gerrymandering school funding” after Our Lady Queen of Peace Primary School in Dunmurry lost its Extended Schools Funding. Principal Cathal O’Doherty said the school had been notified by the Department that their funding “had been completely withdrawn” due to a new way in which […]



